Taking a Look at The Osborne Computer - The First Portable Computer.

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In 1981 the Osborne Computer Corporation released the Osborne 1 portable computer, which is widely regarded as the first mass market portable computer. It features a 4MHz Zilog z80 CPU, and 64k of RAM. It's a luggable computer, which is a form factor that pre-dates laptops by a number of years. The Osborne portable computer was designed to run the CP/M operating system by Digital Research. The Osborne Computer Corporation would eventually go bankrupt because they showed off a new and improved version of the Osborne computer too soon after the first version hit the market, and hurting sales of their current product. This is where the turn "the Osborne effect" came from.


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0:00 Intro
1:25 First Look
2:48 How portable was the Osborne?
3:57 WoRC Expo announcement
4:18 Boot up and software demo
7:05 Games
7:44 Display stuff
8:16 What happened to the Osborne Computer Corporation?
9:42 Outro

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